Your Friendly Neighborhood Music Critic

Dan Auerbach’s latest solo project, Waiting on a Song, featured a return to some of the 70’s era blues-rock that had grown a bit stale in today’s gritty rap-pop musical climate, but seeing him perform on Kimmel, now months later, supported by his all senior-citizen band, put a cute spin on the reflections of a man writing songs from over forty years ago, especially one as Beatles-like and innocent as “Stand By My Girl.” Watch the performance below: